beta won't install onto raw scsi drives
I really have no idea which package to file this against . . .
My boss's new system arrived; a Gateway NS-7000, dual PII, 512Mb, 3x4Mb scsi.
After making a new resc1440 disk (it wouldn't boot off my regular one; I
assume something to do with alignment), I started up installation.
Partitioning the hard disks was not possible from within the program. It
simply announced that fdisk was unable to format the disks.
I switched to the second console, and looked at them with fdisk. Or tried :)
They spewed more than a screeenful of data, but the gist was that all for
partitions were not on boundaries. These disks had not been formatted; we
bought the machine without an OS.
By blindly deleting all four partitions on each drive, fdisk was able to go
happily about it's business.
My suggestion would be rather than bombing with no message (or one that
doesn't ask for an acknowledgement, and thus just flashes by), that, if unable
to execute, fdisk as called from the installation package ask for permission
to delete all partitions on the hard disk.
rick
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